I stayed up late and read this book in one sitting! It's a very well written, very spooky read-it-with-all-the-lights-on thriller. Twenty years ago, a child killer terrorized the British village of Featherbank. He was known as The Whisper Man, and a local cop finally caught him and put him in prison. Now another young boy has gone missing, and the boy's mother reports that someone had been whispering outside his window before he went missing, too. Did the Whisper Man have an accomplice? Or is this a copycat killer who knows way more than he should of the details of the old case? In the middle of all this, Tom Kennedy and his young son Jake move to Featherbank for a new start after their wife and mother, Rebecca, dies suddenly. Unfortunately, they choose to buy a house that all the local kids call "the scary house" - and this house will turn out to be very, very scary indeed for Tom and Jake.